Transport Capacity Planning Sr Engineer

Job Description

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At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

Role Purpose:

Responsible for end‑to‑end IP transport network capacity planning and optimization, ensuring sustainable network growth and performance.

To ensure the planning and alignment of transport resources to support evolving traffic demand, while maintaining efficiency, resilience, and long‑term network integrity.

Key Accountabilities & Decision Ownership:

• Own end‑to‑end backhaul capacity plans, ensuring timely and sustainable support for current and forecasted traffic demand across transport and IP layers.
• Define and approve capacity dimensioning decisions, including utilization thresholds, expansion triggers, and optimization actions within the backhaul domain.
• Own the issuance and validation of new service designs over the IP Backhaul network, ensuring capacity readiness, scalability, and alignment with transport planning principles.
• Drive proactive capacity risk management, including identification, prioritization, and resolution of medium‑ and long‑term capacity constraints.
• Provide authoritative capacity recommendations to stakeholders, enabling informed decisions on network evolution, efficiency, and investment planning
• Services design Issuance and Validation SLA Compliance.
• Design Governance Compliance,Adherence of issued services designs to approved planning principles, standards, and governance frameworks.

Core Competencies, Knowledge, and Experience

• 1-4 years of experience in IP Networks technologies.
• Effective communication & influencing skills.
• Excellent analytical & decision-making skills.
• High Interpersonal and organizational skills.
• Familiarity with Huawei router platforms is preferred.
• BSc of Engineering in Telecommunications.
• Strong knowledge of IP network technologies.

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

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Together we can.